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  • Weekend Recap

    What a weekend. Friday morning I left for Troyan with my colleague and her husband to make a report on an event there. Took a lot of pictures. That evening we went to have dinner with all the people who were invited to the event. The deputy mayor of Troyan sent a group of students to our table, since they would be able to speak English to me. I’ll get back to that one later. So after dinner, the group decided they wanted to go get a coffee.. I decided to go along and my colleague joined. So a coffee became an alcoholic drink and what became one alcoholic drink became many. Managed to not speak to any of the girls except one. I wonder if I disappointed the deputy mayor… Woke up early the next day to resume work, wondering when I would be able to sleep more than 4 hours (I’m on a sleep diet again).

    troyan1.jpg troyan2.jpg rila1.jpg rila2.jpg

    We left at around 1… Or started leaving anyway. I got back to my apartment, had about half an hour to get other stuff and buy food. Then I had to go to Bobi’s house, because we were going to a psytrance party on the Rila mountain. After about 2.5 hours of mucking about in Sofia, we were finally on the road. Was a tad hard to find, but in the end we found it… It was SO cold. During the night it got colder and colder, to a point where I did not want to remove myself from the fire anymore. Glad that Bobi could lend me his winter-jacket. At about 6 I grabbed my blanket and slept on the forest floor for about 2 hours. Came home on Sunday at around 12.30 I think. Slept until 8pm, when I decided to go get some pizza. Dead-tired still.. That’s why I’m keeping this post short. I’ll let the picture speak for themselves.

    Click here for the Troyan gallery.
    Or here for the Rila psytrance party gallery.

  • EvilAngle – DanceMonkeyDance

    Just some easily accessible dance music. Hope you enjoy!

    Tracklist
    Transform – Transformation (00:00 – 03:34)
    Sunfreakz ft. Andrea Britton – Counting Down the Days [Axwell RMX] (02:32 – 08:22)
    Soul Providers – Rise (07:51 – 09:57)
    Olav Basoki – Waterman (09:40 – 12:00)
    The Course – Ready or Not (11:29 – 14:01)
    Gusto – Disco’s Revenge (13:31 – 15:39)
    Syndicate of Law – I Like to Move it [12″ Mix] (15:09 – 20:17)
    Dennis Christopher – It’s Not Right [Simmons and Christopher Dub Mix] (19:15 – 25:32)
    Paul Johnson – Get Get Down 2006 [Kurd Mawericks Addicted to Drums RMX] (24:32 – 30:03)
    Black Legend – You See The Trouble With Me (29:48 – 33:07)
    Queen vs. the Miami Project – Another One Bites the Dust [Club Mix] (32:53 – 36:41)
    Junior Jack – Stupidisco (35:41 – 37:41)
    A.T.F.C. – Bad Habit (37:26 – 40:24)
    De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig – Shenkie (40:03 – 42:30)
    Akcent – Kylie (42:15 – 44:08)
    Bon Garçon – Freek U (43:51 – 45:14)
    Alcazar – This Is The World We Live In (45:06 – 48:33)
    Dr. Kucho! ft. Andy Sherman – Lies to Yourself [Original Mix 07] (47:00 – 53:57)
    Justin Timberlake – Lovestoned I Think She Now [Tiësto RMX] (52:58 – 55:51)
    Freaks – The Creep [Get On The Floor] [Thoamas Gold RMX] (55:36 – 60:32)
    Steff da Campo – Candyman [Extended Mix] (60:18 – 64:02)
    Infernal – Ten Miles [Spank@The High Mile Club Mix] (63:02 – 67:17)
    Brielle Davis – Take It Off [Andy Calldwell RMX] (67:03 – 70:56)
    Paul Oakenfold ft. Pharell – Sex N’ Money [Benny Benassi Pump-kin Club Mix] (69:01 – 75:42)

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  • Free Burma, Mail China

    Found this through Ko Htike’s blog. Please do this! If you’re not too sure about why we’re asking China to take action, please see this post (Why Does Beijing Strongly Support the Myanmar Government?).

    Dear all,
    If you would like to help Myanmar, please help like this.
    With best wishes for you.

    Subject: Burma: Sending a message or two or three or four… to China

    HOW TO HELP BURMA?

    If everybody we know emails a request (not for tickets, but for
    China’s action for Burma) to ” target=”_blank”>, it will
    significantly slow down Olympics ticket sales and call China’s
    attention to the matter. China may ignore protests, hunger strikes,
    petitions, wearing-red shirts, etc. But China cannot ignore these
    emails, which get in the way of processing Olympics ticket requests.

    Please see the template at the bottom. Please also pledge to send the
    same email every 6 hours, or every time you check your email. If they
    get tens of thousands of email a day, they will have to do something
    about it.

    WHY?

    China should use its leverage to bring reconciliation and peace in
    Burma. However, it recently vetoed a Security Council resolution on
    Burma. Yet with the threat of Olympics boycott, China has yielded
    significantly to condemn Sudan’s genocidal regime.

    Please note that this action is NOT a call to boycott the Olympics.
    ============================================

    Send to ” target=”_blank”> every 6 hours, or every time you
    check your email.
    ==================================================

    Subject: re: tickets

    Dear Sirs/Madams,

    I am very interested in purchasing tickets to some of the events at
    next year’s Olympic games.

    However I cannot, in good conscience, attend the Beijing Olympics
    unless your government uses its influence to improve the political
    situation in Burma. China has substantial economic interests in the
    country, provides large amounts of economic aid, and invests heavily
    in infrastructure projects there. Additionally, your government
    provides extensive logistical support to Burma’s military government.
    All this make China uniquely placed to influence it.

    The people of Burma have, in a very peaceful manner, insisted that
    their rights be respected. I ask no more of your government than that
    it cease its support for the current regime, and encourage dialog with
    the democratically elected representatives of the Burmese nation.

    I, the Burmese people, and the world would be grateful for your
    assistance in this matter. Your courage will go a long way towards
    making the 2008 Olympics a success.

    With sincere thanks,

    (your name)

    For a Free Burma! Please Stumble this post!

  • Junta generals and soldiers jailed by Myanmar government

    Great news!!

    Myanmar’s ruling junta have detained five generals and more than 400 soldiers for disobeying orders to shoot and beat monks and other activists who took part in recent protests in Yangon, an official said Monday.The official, who asked for anonymity out of fear he would be punished by the junta, said it was the first sign of divisions in the country’s secretive establishment.

    “The five generals expressed their refusal to deploy their troops against the monks openly. They were then quickly put into detention by the junta.

    “Some 400 soldiers of the Sikai Division near Mandalay (Myanmar’s second largest city) also put down their guns in front of the monks, and asked for their forgiveness as they fully realized they had committed the biggest sin,” he told The Jakarta Post.

    Read the rest of the Jakarta Post article here!

    And press I Like It! on your Stumble bars please!

  • Wedentistday

    Doesn’t really work. Well, to make things clear: today, Wednesday, I went to the dentist. For the first time in a really, really long time (take how long you thing and multiply it by two or three). Because I wanted to? Hell no. Eastern Europe would be the last place where I’d choose to go to a dentist, but I had to. I won’t get into the specifics, thank me later.

    So I called the Dutch embassy yesterday to find out what a good dentist would be. Then I asked around some more for English-speaking dentists, since I’m skeptical of diplomats. I was referred to the same dentist with great enthusiasm for about 3 times, so I decided it was the right choice. As I knew the treatment was likely to involve removing a molar or at least involving some cutting and slashing, you can understand that I was a bit nervous when I got in. I really had to concentrate to put what looked like a signature on some form (my trademark when it comes to signatures is the uniqueness that every one of them has; no two signatures are alike!).

    So then I got into ‘the chair’. Here it began. Honestly though… I don’t know why people bitch so bad about dentists. What was going to take half an hour took one and a half hour (yes it was that bad), but wow was I able to calm down. The only thing on my mind was dentistry and my breathing. I had to calm myself down and I did. At some moments I was really enjoying the marvels of this bright light, 2 sets of blue eyes looking into me, a metal staff which made a noise and had a golden glow because of the light above me… and some tube somewhere near my head that made a noise like someone was really being over-enthusiastic with the last bit of their milkshake (took me a while to figure out what it was… and that it was in my mouth).

    I have to say, I’m very happy with what the guy did. I’m planning on visiting him more often (some more stuff to fix, might as well get it done with), but I don’t hope on making it a habit if you know what I mean ;-).

  • Dutch minister of health to ban “magic mushrooms”

    After discussing the item for months, minister Klink (member of the Christian-Democrat party) has decided to ban the sale of magic mushrooms.

    Dried mushrooms were already illegal to sell and own and were considered harddrugs. With the ban of sales, minister Klink is also consulting minister of Justice, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, if they could declare all mushrooms as harddrugs. This discussion leading up to this decision was mainly caused and influenced by incidents involving tourists whose irresponsible behaviour amounted to a lot of fear in the eyes of the public. Cohen, mayor of Amsterdam, already proposed a way to decrease spontaneous purchases of mushrooms by tourists, by giving them a certain waiting time before they could get the mushrooms. During this time they could inform themselves about the effects.

    It’s a very bold move by the minister and although the majority of the parliament is for a ban, it still comes unexpected to many. Previous research into mushrooms has shown that the risks when taking mushrooms in a responsible way are very minimal. The Dutch organisation for smartshops have warned the government repeatedly of the risks involved of people buying mushrooms in an underground market.

    It is expected that many groups will contest and protest the decision, since some view the mushroom as an entheogen and see the plant as capable of invoking very powerful spiritual and philosophical experiences.

    Also see:
    “Klink gaat paddo’s verbieden” – nu.nl (Dutch article)

  • Help Armoede de Wereld Uit (Dutch)

    www.een.nl

  • Pharmacy

    So last Sunday I burned my hand because a certain someone (James ;-)) poured some boiling water over my hand. I used to work in a bar so it’s nothing I haven’t experienced before, but this time it wasn’t me that was causing it, so it didn’t stop immediately… And I didn’t really feel it when it hit my hand so I held it right under it for about a second or two. I held it under cold water for a minute or two (much longer than I would have at the bar) and then decided I was bored and that irresponsibility is much more fun anyway.

    Yesterday I decided though, that it would probably be a good idea to get some cream for it. I have no idea where the idea came from, but I guess some part of my mind is telling me what to do, since I don’t have my mom around to tell me what to do. Usually it’s my friends, well, female friends who are more concerned about my health than I am, but without this element, I’m on my own. So I did the smart thing, I went to the pharmacy.

    If you don’t want to be bothered with learning a language, then make friends who do speak this language. I went inside, found out pretty soon that it was going to be very tough to speak English to them and basically I got pretty far. I was presented two products and I was asked a question which, apparently, was important. I couldn’t answer, so the woman started calling someone. The person she was calling didn’t pick up, so I indicated that I’d call a friend. So I did, I passed the phone to the woman and my friend helped me out. Turns out her mom has a pharmacy herself, so she was the right one to call.

    They should really include instructions on how to use these things though. I sprayed some of the stuff on and it started expanding and expanding and it seemed enough to rub onto both my arms. And the smell! They should have a warning not to use it in public places. Then again, you’re probably not going to nurture your burns in a public place.

  • DailyMe Launches Public Beta

    Looks like I won’t be giving out invitations after all.

    Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 12:05 AM
    I’m pleased to announce the launch of the DailyMe public Beta. This means our DailyMe news platform is now available to everyone.We’ve been working hard to be able to make this day happen. I’d like to thank all of our early Beta testers for their commitment, feedback and patience over the past months. Much of the DailyMe experience we are launching today is a direct result of the feedback that we have compiled from our initial Beta test group.

    For those new to DailyMe, all you need to do to experience DailyMe is create an account and select your DailyMe preferences. It’s a short process that just takes a few minutes.

    Briefly, DailyMe creates a personalized news digest based on your own preferences, using choices of news categories, keywords, individual news sources and pre-configured “picks.” You can choose to have DailyMe delivered on the web, sent via email or automatically output from your personal computer printer at a specified time of day.

    Feel free to sign up and give DailyMe a try.

    Lastly, one request. As you use and enjoy this Beta version of DailyMe, if you have any suggestions for the site, encounter any technical issues, or come across anything that is not 100% clear, please let us know so we can address it. We’ve set up a link on the sidebar where you can reach us directly.

    Thanks for your interest in DailyMe.

    -Eduardo

    Try it out people. I’ve been using it for a little bit now and it’s quite a nice system. Really has to separate itself from other personalized news pages though, when it comes to the web service that is. The options that you can automatically get it emailed, or printed are very cool. Besides that, Eduardo announced some cool stuff that will be available in the future:

    As a result of such feedback, we’ll be:
    – Looking into improvements and better explanations for the process of selecting content (step 2 of the sign-up process)
    – Adding an open RSS reader to allow DailyMe users to add their preferred RSS feeds
    – Offering more display options for your news page
    – Adding more licensed sources

    Sweet stuff, right?

    One thing I don’t really get however, is the social bookmarking links at the bottom of articles on DailyMe. Thing is, I doubt that you can view any content without signing up, so what’s the point in SOCIAL bookmarking it?

    If you’re interested, go check out the sign-up page now!

    Soon you’ll be able to receive DailyMe throughout the day, where, when and how you’d like. Have your 9:00am DailyMe via email at your desk and your 6:00pm DailyMe printed automatically, easy for the grab and go commute.

    The future of news. Share it.

  • Ex-pat of the Week

    I won! I won! I’m ex-pat in Bulgaria of the week! I just can’t believe it. You work so hard and so long, and I must admit I came to the point where I was saying “fuck the fame, I’ll just do it my way and if the critics don’t like it, it’s their problem”. Look where that got me!

    Okay, where do I start.. there’s just too many people to thank! I would like to thank my parents and family, for always supporting me. My friends, for being there in the rough times in the past predating this marvelous event. God, for telling me what to eat and the nightly visits of course. Jesus, for dying for our sins, thank you Jesus (*I’ll call you*)! And finally, I want to thank my family’s deceased hamster Snuffie and dead/disapeared cat Fluff, for all the smiles and tears of joy they caused, wherever they might be.

    This is truly a great day for me. Since I’ve been here I’ve had so many great days, but I don’t know how I’m going to top this one! Wow.

    Oh, and please Stumble! this post, because this day is so important for me.. It has to be shared ;-).

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